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- The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards
- Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows"
- No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
- General George Patton
- Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
- Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox
- As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
- Maurice Wilkes, discovers debugging, 1949
- Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
Higher emotions, and table manners. - Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
- Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
- Gene Fowler
- Maude - "The earth is my body, my head is in the stars...Who said that?" Harold- "I don't know." Maude - "Well, I suppose I did."
- Maude (Ruth Gordon) and Harold (Bud Cort), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
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